PROFESSIONAL
PROFILE
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Journalist
Dave Freedman has worked as a journalist since 1978, primarily in the
fields of finance and law. He has served on the editorial
staffs of consumer, business, professional, and trade periodicals,
including magazines, newsletters, newspapers, and online
media.
Since 2014, he has reported extensively on angel investing and crowdfunding
for Financial Poise
(FP), which provides financial and legal education to
individual investors and private business owners.
See all of Dave's
articles on those topics
at FP. He has participated, as both panelist and moderator, in webinars
on financial topics for entrepreneurs and investors, produced by FP and West
LegalEdCenter.
Dave has also written about home improvement and woodworking for such magazines as Better Homes and Gardens, American Woodworker, Fine Woodworking, and Woodcraft.
Media Relations
Dave has helped lawyers and financial advisers write feature
articles under their bylines and place them in print and digital
publications. He won a Your Honor Award from the Legal Marketing
Association (LMA)
for public relations. Dave is a coauthor
of the handbook Under Your Byline: 7 Steps to Getting Your
Bylined Articles Published.
Author
Dave is the author or coauthor in three successful non-fiction book
projects:
Dave coauthored (with Matt Nutting) Equity Crowdfunding for Investors: A Guide to Risks, Returns, Regulations, Funding Portals, Due Diligence, and Deal Terms (Wiley & Sons, 2015)
Dave coauthored (with David Fleisher) Death of an American (Continuum, NY, 1983). Based on the $100 million Singer vs. Wadman civil rights lawsuit filed in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1979. See Kirkus review.
He wrote Box-Making Basics, a woodworking book (Taunton Press, Newtown, CT, 1997), which has sold over 83,000 copies.
Road Warrior
Dave rides two Trek bicycles: Emonda and FX. He is on the executive
board of the Chicago Urban Bicycle Society (CUBS).